Sleep Isn’t Just a Personal Issue, It’s a Business Imperative

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• potentially sacrificing the small “p” productivity of a single task or project, for the large “P” productivity of consistent sleep.

• At scale, the impact of each employee’s sleep quality can critically impact the success of a business.

• truggling with sleep more than once a week, and waking up exhausted.

• Sacrificing sleep is tempting, but damaging

• “I could reach my goals if only I didn’t need to sleep.” The wish is understandable.

• not sacrificing their team’s sleep or well-being for the sake of short term

• Constant sprints or marathons are ineffective.

• Consider making sleep a topic of focus within your broader L&D investment.

• Flexible schedules that allow employees to influence their own working hours help ensure multiple chronotypes have the opportunity to thrive.

• Collecting data on individual sleep can be as simple as including questions related to employee sleep amount and sleep quality on annual surveys.

• “no meeting Fridays,”

• to create “work blocks”